Rachel Laudan

Set Up for Failure: The USDA Daily Plate

By Rachel Laudan December 19, 2011 Food Politics, Modern Food 2 Comments

Using NPD’s National Eating Trends®(NET®) research, which has continually tracked the eating and drinking habits of U.S. consumers for over 30 years, MyPlate days were calculated based on consumers who,…

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Why jamon serrano is not a cured meat (according to the USDA)

By Rachel Laudan August 28, 2011 Food Politics, Modern Food 2 Comments

By arbitrarily removing salt and sugar from their rightful place as chemical compounds, the USDA eliminates hundreds of products that are traditionally cured with one or both of these chemicals. So, in the obfuscating terminology of…

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